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| The Liberals Sgarbi | |
| Native Name: | I Liberal Sgarbi |
| Leader: | Vittorio Sgarbi |
| Foundation: | 21 March 1999 |
| Dissolution: | c. 2007 |
| Ideology: | Liberalism Libertarianism |
| Position: | Centre-right |
| National: | House of Freedoms (2000–06) |
| Europarl: | EPP-ED (1999–2001) |
| Colours: | Yellow, Blue |
| Country: | Italy |
The Liberals Sgarbi (Italian: I Liberal Sgarbi), then renamed Liberals Sgarbi – The Libertarians (Italian: Liberal Sgarbi – I Libertari), was a minor personalist-liberal political party in Italy.
The party was founded in March 1999 by Vittorio Sgarbi,[1] [2] a member of the Chamber of Deputies first elected in 1992 with the Italian Liberal Party, who later joined Forza Italia (1994), the Federalist Party (1995) and the Pannella-Sgarbi List (1996). In the 1999 European Parliament election, thanks to a new electoral pact with Forza Italia,[3] Sgarbi was elected to the European Parliament and served there for two years.[4] In 2001 he was re-elected to the Chamber of Deputies for Forza Italia.[5]
In the 2004 European Parliament election the party formed a joint list with the Italian Republican Party, gainining 0.7% of the vote and no MEPs.[6] [7] In the 2006 general election, it sided with the centre-left The Union and was part of the Consumers' List, along with the Southern Democratic Party, but Sgarbi failed to be re-elected. In the same year's municipal election of Milan the party supported Letizia Moratti, who was elected mayor for the House of Freedoms coalition.